Installing .OTF fonts - and Latex/Xetex?

I want to install some OTF fonts - specifically the Garamond Premier Pro font family that comes with Adobe Font Folio Education Essentials.
What I did was placing the files into .fonts/ and running fc-cache -vf.
Apparently, I can use the fonts now, and specifying a \setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Garamond Premier Pro} compiles fine running xelatex... I am just not sure if the font is actually properly displayed.
I found some stuff on this board, but it wasn't too helpful.
My question is: Is the installation routine I applied sufficient or do I have to take care of anything else in order to properly install the fonts for use with Latex/Xetex?

For the two things that I suggested:
localfontsdir is on line #58.
berryname starts on line #138. Add the following line to the middle of the list somewhere. I'm not 100% sure that 'pad' is the correct berryname, but it's the closest that I found and it works:
'Garamond Premier Pro' : 'pad',
I did run this as root. The first time that I did this, I couldn't figure out how to do it as a regular user. I found other references to running it as root, and I figured that since it's from CTAN now, it's going to be malware free.
When you run the script, run it in the directory with the GPP fonts and wildcard it. ./otfinst *.otf
By the way, XeTeX will just find them if your system can find them. But XeTeX doesn't do microtype, so I went back to LaTeX.
Last edited by skottish (2008-11-20 19:53:37)

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